Wednesday, 21 June 2017

Book Review: Devil Of The Forest by Brennan Beard

SOMETIMES IT TAKES AN ABOMINABLE THREAT TO AWAKEN THE MONSTER WITHIN…

Hailey
Card is a tenacious young science journalist with big plans for her
career, but when her magazine looks to attract new readers with stories
beyond the fringe of established science, Hailey is sent to the
mountains of the pacific northwest, where she’ll join a group of
grizzled researchers in pursuit of America’s most notorious
cryptozoological creature…

Three-thousand miles from her
civilized New York life, Hailey’s skepticism soon turns to terror, and
when she and the crew find themselves hunted by monsters both human and
otherwise, all of Hailey’s city-slicker sophistication yields to the
most primal of animal instincts:

Fight or Flight.

My Review:You know how you see a book that talks about being a Bigfoot story but
turns into the story of a whiny useless female instead? Yes, this is
that book.

Hailey has convinced herself that she is going to get
promoted to junior editor of the magazine, despite being in big trouble
two weeks earlier for an article she wrote that upset some very
influential people. She was so confident that she told the office gossip
about it and now everybody knows what is going on when Hailey is called
in to see the boss. Imagine her shock in finding out that the boss
never even considered her for the position which embarrassing for her,
has gone to her lover. She behaves like a complete idiot in the
interview, protesting about it, whining, declaring that she believed she
was right for the post and the whole time I was gritting my teeth and
willing her to shut the hell up!

So instead, Hailey is being sent
on a Bigfoot hunt with her scientific hero Preston, who of course is a
repulsive, drunken, leering moron. She isn't interested in in but isn't
happy when the airline stewardess is giving him preferential treatment
and ignoring her. When she arrives at the place where the Bigfoot
chasers are, she manages to racially offend one man and delares her
intent to investigate them to see if they are charlatans, annoying
everyone as you can imagine. She moans about being stuck in a backwoods
place, whines about being asked to get coffee and excluded from further
discussions, and is basically a pain in the arse.

By the time
they are travelling out to the actual woods and getting set up ready for
a monster hunt, 50% of the book was already gone and nothing at all had
happened. It was very dull and I didn't even care enough to see if
anyone died. I noticed that some reviews talk also about psycho drug
dealers which makes me glad that I didn't venture on.

I couldn't say that I found anything to like about this. Read March 2017.1 star.

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